Humour is a strange, intangible thing isn’t it? We often just laugh at something without really thinking about why we find it funny. Of course comedy is massively subjective even among people who grew up in the same town, but how does it transfer across cultures? I’ll start with a short tale from my childhood. […]
If I were to say that today’s post is about a Brazilian cocktail, I imagine that the first drink on most people’s minds would be the caipirinha. But having just looked back through the Eat Rio archives, I realise I’ve already said rather a lot about Brazil’s most famous cocktail, with posts ranging from how […]
It would be unfair to say that Brazilian food is unsophisticated – if you live in one of Brazil’s larger cities, you can certainly find food sophisticated enough to stand toe-to-toe with any European or North American über-restaurant (by the way if you happen to be a sugardaddy/sugarmummy and feel like treating me, my wish […]
Let me set the scene. It had been a long day. I started at 7.30am with a conference call from home and after getting to the office in Barra, I worked through until around 9pm at which point I was spared the bus ride home by a colleague who gave me a lift to Botafogo in Zona Sul. […]
There’s an implicit conceit in writing a blog isn’t there? It’s that you judge what you have to say to be worthy of people’s attention. It’s the equivalent of walking into a room and shouting “Listen up everyone! I’ve got something to say and I think you’re going to like it!”. I’m sure we bloggers […]